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1895. COURTS (French Plenary), Composition of.—[further continued].

The right of registering
the laws is taken from the parliaments and
transferred to a Plenary court, created by the
King. This last is the measure most obnoxious
to all persons. Though the members
are to be for life, yet a great proportion of
them are from descriptions of men always
candidates for the royal favor in other
lines.—
To John Jay. Washington ed. ii, 391.
(P. May. 1788)